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secure a copy of the " Annals of Agriculture," published by Arthur Young, 

 Vol ii, 1789, pages 406 to 613, of which are devoted to these papers. 

 The title in this volume differs only from that given by Dr. Hagen, in 

 having the word " Privy " before " Council," and the contents of the 

 volume from the table of titles given by Dr. Hagen, only in that his Nos. 

 three and seven " Orders of the Council " are omitted in the Annals. 

 The original paper is a quarto volume, and fills in the octavo Annals 

 nearly 208 pages, which will account for the discrepancy in the space, 

 occupied by each article, the articles in the Annals not being numbered, 

 I refer to these old papers because they are most interesting as exempli- 

 fying the fact, that the late confounding of such terms as " Fly-weavil" 

 for " Hessian Fly" in the minutes of the American Philosophical Society, 

 which has made such a difference in the historic facts, had its counterpart 

 at that time. The more important papers consist of a letter (1788) by P. 

 Bond, Consul at Philadelphia, to the Right Honorable Marquis of Car- 

 marthen, about the injury of the " Hessian Fly " in the Middle States, 

 and supposing that the eggs are laid in the grain, as " seed wheat steeped 

 in a preparation of elder juice effectually secures a crop." Bond probably 

 referred to the true Hessian Fly, but his letter is followed by one from Sir 

 Jos. Banks, President of the Royal Society, to the Marquis of Carmarthen, 

 in which Banks calls the insect " the Flying Weavil," describes the adult 

 as a minute moth, likens it to the clothes moth, states how the eggs are laid 

 upon the grains of wheat and produce a diminutive caterpillar; in fact 

 refers to the Angoumois grain-moth. There is a large subsequent cor- 

 respondence, and finally Banks recogizes his first mistake and collects 

 a good deal of information about both Gelechia cerealella and the true 

 Hessian Fly, the latter derived from Dr. Mitchell. 



Pages 465 and 471 are occupied by an excellent article by Col. Geo. 

 Morgan, of New Jersey, to Sir John Temple, Consul General for Great 

 Britain at New York, which gives a good account of the spread of the 

 Hessian Fly and its origin, states that the name was given by him and a 

 friend early after its first appearance on Long Island, and then treats of 

 the " Virginia Wheat-fly," and also of the " Chintz Bug-fly." It is worthy 

 of note that these papers are preceded in Young's Annals by an anony- 

 mous article entitled, " On the Hessian Fly, whose depredations have 

 been very mischevious in America," in which the author recognizes and 

 describes the work of C. destructor, describes its annual spread from the 



